Key Resources for Informatics
The following databases contain a variety of material, including journal articles, for your specific subject area. The brief descriptions beneath the titles will explain what each hold. To access, click on the title.
- ACM Digital Library This link opens in a new windowA full-text repository of papers published by the Association for Computing Machinery and associated publishers.
- arXiv This link opens in a new windowOpen access to over 880,000 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics.
- IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new windowAccess to journals, transactions, letters, magazines and conference proceedings on computer science, electrical engineering and electronics.
- Kanopy (now via Library Search) This link opens in a new windowYou can now look for Kanopy films using Library Search. The benefit of this is that it will also search across our other film collections, to make sure that you don't miss out. Simply enter your search terms and select 'Video' from the drop down list at the end of the Library Search bar.
- Science This link opens in a new windowThe world's leading journal of original scientific research, global news and commentary.
- ScienceDirect This link opens in a new windowFull text and abstracts from over 2,500 journals in all fields of science and social sciences such as economics, management and business.
- Scopus This link opens in a new window
Scopus is a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database, which provides access to academic journals, books, conference proceedings, and patents from 1788–present.
Advanced Features: citation analysis, author profiles, journal metrics; data export and analysis, search alerts.
Subjects: Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and Engineering ; Life and Health Sciences ; Social Sciences, Psychology and Economics ; Biological, Agricultural; Environmental Sciences.
- SpringerLink This link opens in a new windowAccess to millions of scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols and reference works, primarily in Science, Technology and Medicine.
- Synthesis This link opens in a new windowAn information service for the research, development and educational communities in engineering and computer science. The University has access to collections I to V.
- Web of Science This link opens in a new windowAccess to the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index.